Evelyn Waugh's most celebrated novel is a memory drama about the intense entanglement of the narrator, Charles Ryder, with a great Anglo-Catholic family. Written during World War II, the novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world Waugh knew in his youth and vividly recalls the sensuous plea-sures denied him by wartime austerities; in so doing it also provides a profound study of the conflict between the demands of religion and the desires of the flesh. At once romantic, sensuous, comic, and somber, Brideshead Revisited transcends Waugh's familiar satiric exploration of his cast of lords and ladies, Catholics and eccentrics, artists and misfits, revealing him to be an elegiac, lyrical novelist of the utmost feeling and lucidity. The edition reprinted here contains Waugh's revisions, made in 1959, and his preface to the revised edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316042994
ISBN-13
9780316042994
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66727736
Product Key Features
Book Title
Brideshead Revisited : the Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Author
Evelyn Waugh
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, General, Literary
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Movie Tie-In,Media Tie-In
Dewey Decimal
823.9/12
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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